Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZACDeath is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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